Persisting humans : a study on vague composition in four-dimensional space-time

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Canbolat, Argun Abrek

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The main theme of this work is the persistence of human persons. Within a redescriptive physicalist framework, and favouring four-dimensionalism and perdurantism, a criterion based on functioning can be the best way to analyse both synchronic and diachronic composition. To be more specific, this work principally holds that the synchronic composition of humans can be analysed given a criterion which suggests that things that function to sustain or constitute the particular life of a given human being are parts of that human being. And since there seems to be vagueness in human composition we can talk of parts in degrees. For diachronic existence, on the other hand, given a four-dimensionalist framework and perdurantism one can analyse the existence of the temporal parts of a single human through functioning parts, referring to a single functioning part’s four-dimensional history.

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Human beings., Space and time., Fourth dimension., Persistence., Personality.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/25240

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A. A. Canbolat, “Persisting humans : a study on vague composition in four-dimensional space-time,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2015.